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Responsible for overall vendor management supporting our investment and trading professionals.

Archedata is a software and services company that brings together the people, processes, and technology to help optimize your data management function. Kairos, our best of breed content and workflow management solution, is designed to streamline sourcing, procurement, and vendor management functions allowing you to accelerate alpha and operate more.

Archedata is a software and services company that brings together the people, processes, and technology to help optimize your data management function. Kairos, our best of breed content and workflow management solution, is designed to streamline sourcing, procurement, and vendor management functions allowing you to accelerate alpha and operate more.

Miami, Florida, US

Responsible for overall sourcing, procurement, and management of third-party data and research services supporting the firm’s investment and trading strategies across Citadel and Citadel Securities. Key Accomplishments· Architected and/or implemented various software solutions to drive best of breed data management including: o New inventory management.

Served non-compete period.

• Schonfeld Strategic Techworx, LLC is the technology and data delivery affiliate of Schonfeld Strategic Advisors LLC ("Schonfeld"). Schonfeld is a multi-manager platform that invests its capital with Internal and.
• Management of vendor relationships and data feeds
• Evaluation and procurement of traditional and alternative data sources
• Development and operations of the Shared Research Environment, servicing the various portfolio management teams with a centralized data store and analytic infrastructure
• Development of proprietary data feeds and analytics

• Semiotics, LLC is a boutique consulting firm focused on developing businesses and products with a particular focus on information services. Significant project areas include:Business and Product Strategy - Analyzed.
• Assessed company solutions to understand differentiators and unique selling points.
• Analyzed market needs for company solutions.
• Defined business/product requirements for prioritized market segments including Cyber Security, Open Source, Geospatial, and Signal Intelligence solutions.Information Technology and Security - Worked with a large hedge.
• Spearheaded pilot projects to identify insider threats utilizing Behavior Analytics solutions to detect data exfiltration, highly privileged access abuse, and anomalous network activity.
• Developed and prioritized requirements for several projects including the firm’s end point protection and forensic analysis capabilities, a network access control implementation, and end user analytics.

Dallas, Texas, US

• Responsible for the banking, financial services and insurance practice at Antuit, a big data analytics consulting firm backed by Goldman Sachs as the lead investor.
• Develop value propositions for various offerings including multi-touch attribution, recommendation engines, customer genome development, real-time customer interventions, and customer / business value exchange
• Analyze market needs for company solutions, including data science, big data infrastructure services, data engineering and business intelligence
• Work with clients to define solution requirements and design a series of impact projects enabling the client to achieve specific and measurable business results in 6-10 weeks

Toronto, ON, CA

• Held full P&L responsibility for the $80M+ Elektron Analytics product portfolio and managed the 110 person global cross-functional team of IT developers, product and project managers, and business development.
• Drove strategy and development of the product suite to maximize revenue and market share for various segments.
• Led the client interview process, requirements gathering, and market sizing exercise for the next generation analytic services proposition for real-time streaming, on-demand, and historical analysis of both structured.
• Grew quantitative and event-driven trading (QED) portfolio in excess of 30% YoY.
• Streamlined the Elektron Analytics product line to support ~$14M in annual cost savings and focused resources on strategic priorities.
• Company spokesperson on big data, text analytics, and social media use for trading and investment strategies.

Toronto, ON, CA

• Full P&L accountability for the multi-award-winning Machine Readable News proposition including product strategy/development, marketing, and sales channel enablement. Offerings included Thomson Reuters News Analytics.
• Drove the acquisition of the Intellectual Property and development team which powered Thomson Reuters News Analytics (TRNA), the market-leading real-time news and social media analysis tool for financial services.
• Established and retained the market leading position of Thomson Reuters News Feed Direct by completely overhauling the infrastructure including communication lines, contribution terminals, and datacenter strategy which.
• Spearheaded the definition of product requirements including solution design, news handling rules, metadata definitions, implementation guidelines, file structure, sales channel enablement and marketing programs.
• Collaborated extensively with numerous company stakeholder groups including editorial, news technology, legal, sales, launch management, admin, and the customer help desk and support groups, among others, to bring best.
• Coordinated research across internal staff, academics, consultants, and sell side analysts to understand and promote how the product line can add value to customers’ portfolio returns and processes.

Rochester, MI, US

• Co-founded an independent investment research firm servicing institutional money managers in the areas of energy, industrials, special situations, biotechnology, economic and foreign exchange research.
• Managed overall operations, sales and marketing, including P&L (Profit and Loss).
• Secured ~120 clients and serviced over 300 institutions with high quality, unbiased proprietary research, industry forums and conferences, as well as access to Foresight's analysts, the firm's expert network, and.
• Raised Angel and Friends and Family capital and managed shareholder communications across a wide group of investors and employees.
• Interviewed and hired 19 financial professionals including 8 publishing analysts in New York, Chicago, and Sydney, as well as 3 institutional sales people.
• Established trading partnerships with 6 broker-dealers to drive increased distribution and revenue.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Accountable for corporate sales to Fortune 500 clients with a $50M+ annual revenue quota. Worked with clients to develop relationship, coverage, and marketing plans.
• Designed solution development and support strategy, including hardware, software, services, and financing.
• Negotiated multi-million dollar contract terms and conditions with clients.
• Led Point of Sale (POS) Conversion Project for specialty retailer that upgraded infrastructure for 219 stores providing the firm with substantial cost savings and its customers with a better experience. Completed.
• Worked with major Consumer Packaged Goods client on a transitional outsourcing contract which temporarily outsourced operations to IBM enabling the client to simplify overall IT operations. Project completed ahead of.
• Recognized repeatedly for superior sales performance and customer satisfaction.

Mba | Master Of Business Administration, Business Administration And Management, General

Bs | Bachelor Of Science, Management & International Business